Service meshes are gaining traction in the cloud native community. In their ServiceMeshCon EU 2020 talk, Buoyant CEO and Linkerd maintainer William Morgan and IBM’s Lin Sun discuss what they’ve learned from implementing Linkerd and Istio service meshes respectively, and how service mesh usage in practice has challenged their early assumptions and design decisions.
This post is a writeup of a talk I gave last month at KubeCon EU 2020. Introduction In mid-2019, the Linkerd project’s continuous integration (CI) took 45 minutes, all tests were serialized on a single Kubernetes cluster, and multi-hour backups were common. A migration onto one-off Kubernetes in …
This week, the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York invited us to work with a hardcore group of architects and engineers who are eager to learn about service mesh and how Linkerd fits into their infrastructure. This workshop follows hot on the heels of our ServiceMeshCon workshop …
KubeCon has quickly become one of the most attended events in our industry, and for good reason: we want to learn about the technologies that are shaping the future of our work. This year in San Diego, Buoyant had the privilege of hosting the Linkerd in Production workshop with our partner Digital …